Joses

Who

Key verses

1. Matthew 13:55

   Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

2. Mark 6:3

   Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.

3. Mark 15:40

   There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

4. Mark 15:47

   Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

Where the Bible names him

Family

Parents

• MCMary of Clopasby tradition · Mark 15:40

Brothers and sisters

• JLJames the Less

Kin

• JCJesus Christcalled his brother: a cousin (Matthew 13:55)

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 77).

• Theophylact of Ohrid on Mark 6:1–6Catena Aurea on Mark

  After the miracles which have been related, the Lord returns into His own country, not that He was ignorant that they would despise Him, but that they might have no reason to say, If Thou hadst come, we had believed…

• Bede on Mark 6:1–6Catena Aurea on Mark

  He means by His country, Nazareth, in which He was brought up. But how great the blindness of the Nazarenes! they despise Him, Who by His words and deeds they might know to be the Christ, solely on account of His…

• Augustine of Hippo on Mark 6:1–6Catena Aurea on Mark

  Matthew indeed says that He was called the son of a carpenter; nor are we to wonder, since both might have been said, for they believed Him to be a carpenter, because He was the son of a carpenter.

• Jerome on Mark 6:1–6Catena Aurea on Mark

  Jesus is called the son of a workman, of that one, however, whose work was the morning and the sun, that is, the first and second Church, as a figure of which the woman and the damsel are healed.

• Bede on Mark 6:1–6 (2)Catena Aurea on Mark

  For although human things are not to be compared with divine, still the type is complete, because the Father of Christ works by fire and spirit. It goes on: “The brother of James, and Joses, of Jude, and of Simon.…

• Jerome on Mark 6:1–6 (2)Catena Aurea on Mark

  Oftentimes also the origin of a man brings him contempt, as it is written, “Who is the son of Jesse?” [1 Sam 25:10] for the Lord “hath respect unto the lowly; as to the proud, He beholdeth them afar off.”

• Theophylact of Ohrid on Mark 6:1–6 (2)Catena Aurea on Mark

  Or again, if the prophet has noble relations, his countrymen hate them, and on that account do not honour the prophet. There follows, “And He could there do no mighty work, &c.” What, however, is here expressed by He…

• Bede on Mark 6:1–6 (3)Catena Aurea on Mark

  Not as if He Who knows all things before they are done, wonders at what He did not expect or look forward to, but knowing the hidden things of the heart, and wishing to intimate to men that it was wonderful, He…